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Nov 5, 1999 · Written by. Eric Roth. Mann. Michael Mann's "The Insider" makes a thriller and expose out of how big tobacco's long-running tissue of lies was finally exposed by investigative journalism. At its center stands Lowell Bergman, a producer for "60 Minutes," the CBS News program where a former tobacco scientist named Jeffrey Wigand spilled the beans.
The Wigand family move into a newer, more affordable house, and Wigand begins teaching chemistry and Japanese at a Louisville high school. One night while asleep, he's alerted by his daughter to sounds outside the house. Upon investigation, he discovers a fresh shoe print in his newly planted garden, and begins to become paranoid.
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Wigand, already suffocating beneath the weight of his awesome secret, is pushed to the limit when his former employer questions his integrity and threatens his family. Bitterness, anger and a concern for the public welfare lead Wigand to tell his story in court and as a taped television interview, both exposing the tobacco industry’s ...
- Michael Mann
Nov 5, 2019 · The Insider, Michael Mann's most underrated masterpiece, turns 20 years old today and its powerful story is more timely now than ever. For a movie that's largely composed of scenes featuring two people just talking in rooms, The Insider is Michael Mann's most riveting thriller. “What got broken here doesn’t go back together.”.
- Phil Pirrello
The Insider. Based on a true story, the producer of the TV current affairs show 60 minutes, played by Al Pacino, and the show's on-air star, Mike Wallace, played by Canadian Christopher Plummer, work to uncover malpractice in the tobacco industry. After convincing a bribed scientist to "spill the beans" to them on camera, they are forced, by ...
- Michael Mann
- Buena Vista Pictures
- Pieter Jan Brugge
- Marie Brenner, Eric Roth
Oct 28, 1999 · Overview. A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco. Michael Mann. Director, Screenplay. Eric Roth.
Nov 15, 2011 · This is the real life tale of two guys battling corporate corruption and compromise: Jeffrey Wigand (Crowe), a research scientist for the tobacco giant Brown & Williamson, which threatens ...
